Rommel’s Afrika Korps had driven British forces deep into Egypt, taking Tobruk and threatening Alexandria. But at El Alamein, the British Eighth Army finally halted his advance. This decisive battle ...

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

Planetarium in Branchburg will present a new show in January focusing on what exists beneath the Earth's crust.

This 20-kilometer-thick anomaly isn’t tied to any known volcanic system and its mysterious origin could change Earth science ...

Jack Creek Farms experienced 78 measurable earthquakes from Nov. 18 to Dec. 22, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

A swarm of at least a dozen earthquakes reaching up to magnitude 3.9 rattled San Ramon near San Francisco, the U.S.

In China’s Taklimakan Desert, engineers are drilling a scientific well over six miles deep to explore the Earth’s interior ...

For years, scientists thought Saturn’s moon Titan hid a global ocean beneath its frozen surface. A new look at Cassini data ...

It's a bit of fun, even if for the vast majority the answer was "somewhere in an ocean". But would it be possible to dig ...

A long-lost fragment of Earth's crust has just been uncovered beneath the icy waters near Greenland—rewriting what scientists ...

The Bermuda archipelago is actually resting on a 20-kilometer underplate that gives it enough lift to habitably rise well ...

Depending on how you look at it, this catchphrase from a 1980s pop song is decently accurate: you can actually melt the ...